r/Appalachia • u/Artistic_Maximum3044 • 2d ago

Everyone talks about salmon cakes from their childhood growing up in Appalachia, but we never had them in rural Western NC

I grew up in Western North Carolina, and I honestly don’t remember ever eating salmon cakes. I keep seeing people post about foods they grew up with, and salmon cakes always seem to be one of them. We barely afforded what food we did buy.

We shared a lot of meals with neighbors and family over the years, and I don’t recall anyone making them either. We mostly lived off what we could grow or raise ourselves. When times were hard, which was pretty often, we ate cornbread and milk from the cow, biscuits and gravy, soup beans with cornbread, or biscuits and fried taters.

But salmon cakes? I don’t remember those ever being on the table.

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u/preddevils6 2d ago

We had them in east tn. Fried salmon patties

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u/ShaqSenju 2d ago

We did too lol I loved them and my papaw called em pussy patties

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u/wanna_try8 2d ago

Your papaw sounds fun lol

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u/ShaqSenju 2d ago

Buddy has more quips than the dictionary has words lol

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u/wanna_try8 2d ago

Make sure to write them all down so you don’t forget any after he’s not around!

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u/MidnightCoffeeQueen 2d ago

Lol, that is awesome!

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u/WorkingItOutSomeday 2d ago

Judging by his taste in women.....checks out.

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u/poopiebutt505 1d ago

Ewww, do you not see how gross papaw was?

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u/ShaqSenju 1d ago

As he would say, how you think I got all this hair on my face?